These quotations on freedom come from a variety of sources, including Fourth Way authors, as selected by our editors.

The sweet bondage which is freedom’s self. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last human freedom-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances. ~ Viktor Frankl

Liberty means responsibility. That is why men dread it. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. ~ George Gurdjieff

The greatest obstacle to your freedom is the idea that you are already free. ~ George Gurdjieff

Things are hidden in their opposites. Whoever wants freedom should be content with slavery. ~ Darqawi  Way

Only consider at what price you sell your freedom and will. ~ Epictetus

When one awakens, reality is ever present, and one is forever removed from the ocean of birth and death. ~ Liu Yiming

One is free when one sees oneself impartially as one does an interesting stranger, without praise or blame. ~ Rodney Collin

Self-remembering* means acceptance—of oneself, of others, of all that is. In the past we have all been so preoccupied with our own problems that there was neither time nor interest to give to real things. Now we have to accept ourselves as we are, and understand that all that doesn’t really merit much attention. Then one is free to devote oneself to something really interesting—the Great Work. This is true freedom. We must try to forget ourselves in the big vision of what has to be done. ~ Rodney Collin

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